Exim Bank Management Trainee Syllabus 2026

Exim Bank Management Trainee Syllabus 2026 — Banking Operations

The Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has published the Banking Operations syllabus for its Management Trainee and Deputy Manager recruitment. This syllabus covers the Professional Knowledge paper of the written test. Read it with the exam pattern below before starting preparation.

Exam pattern

The written test is a Professional Knowledge (subjective) paper of 100 marks in 2 hours 30 minutes. Part I has one compulsory question carrying 40 marks. Part II has 8 questions, of which any 6 are to be attempted, carrying 60 marks. Selection is on the basis of the written test, with 70 percent weightage, and a personal interview of 100 marks, with 30 percent weightage. There is no sectional cut-off.

Syllabus — 11 areas

1. Annual Reports: Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, Cash Flows, Financial Ratios.
2. Financial Projections: projected statements, Break-Even Point, Time Value of Money, NPV, IRR, DSCR, ICR, Sensitivity Analysis.
3. Financial Management and Forex Markets: External Commercial Borrowings, Interest Rate Benchmarks, Indian GAAP and Ind AS and global Accounting Standards, Equity and Bond Pricing, Derivatives — Swaps, Options, Forwards, Futures, and Foreign Currency and INR Resource Raising.
4. Trade Finance: Letters of Credit, Bank Guarantees, Supplier's and Buyer's Credit, UCPDC 600, URDG.
5. KYC and Compliance: CIBIL, CRILC, CFR, FATF, OFAC, SDN, AML and CFT, CEIB, FATCA.
6. Stressed Accounts, NPA and Recovery Process: RBI Master Circulars, IRAC Norms, SARFAESI, IBC, recent Government and RBI initiatives.
7. Risk Management and Audit: types of risks, evaluation and mitigation, Basel III norms.
8. Indian and Global Economy: India's international trade and services, top export and import sectors, industry analysis, trade agreements.
9. Indian Financial System: RBI, SEBI, Export Credit Agencies, DFIs, banks — public, private and foreign — and Financial SEZs.
10. Taxation: direct and indirect taxation on financial transactions, key international taxation aspects.
11. Legal and Regulatory Framework: Indian Contract Act, Company Law — Articles and Memorandum of Association, Security Creation, Registration of Charges, FEMA, ODI Guidelines.

The Bank has also published stream-wise syllabi for Administration and Human Resource Management on the same careers page.

Important — which recruitment this syllabus belongs to

Do not confuse this syllabus with the older advertisement HRM/MT/2026-27/01. That advertisement covered only 5 Management Trainee posts (Human Resource Management 3 and Administration 2), with applications from 15 May to 14 June 2026, and it is closed. The syllabus document is the Bank's generic Banking Operations syllabus for the Management Trainee and Deputy Manager recruitment, and the exam pattern above is as printed in that official advertisement.

This syllabus post is tied to the Bank's new direct recruitment of Management Trainees (90 posts) and Managers (30 posts), 120 posts in all, for which only the official short notice has been published so far, with the last date for application 11 December 2026. The detailed advertisement for that recruitment is awaited on the official careers page; the fee, age limit, qualification and salary for it will be added when the detailed advertisement appears. The short notice was read from a copy of the official notice hosted on an aggregator site, and that basis is stated here plainly.